Seagate and Intel to Demonstrate Solid State Hybrid Drive Capabilities at Intel Developer Forum 201210:19 EDT Tuesday, September 11, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (Business Wire) -- Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) announced today that they will be
working with Intel Corporation to demonstrate new advancements in solid
state hybrid drives (SSHD) at this year's Intel
Developer Forum taking place September 11-13, 2012, at the Moscone
West Convention Center in San Francisco. In the Advanced Technology Zone
of the event, Intel will demonstrate Seagate's latest solid
state hybrid drive design, accelerated with Intel® Smart Response
Technology, which run common office productivity applications almost on
par with solid state drives.
Separately, an educational presentation titled “Ultrabook™
Responsiveness: Performance & Power End-Users Can Feel” (#ULBS004), will
provide details on how SSHD technology combined with Intel Smart
Response Technology will contribute to a powerful new combination of
performance and capacity in the next generation Ultrabook devices. Solid
state hybrid drives combine performance similar to a solid state drive
with the large capacity of a hard disk drive in a single disk drive
enclosure.
Each year, Intel's strategic partners gather at Intel Developer Forum to
learn about, discuss and demonstrate advancements in personal computing
based on PC industry standards and Intel products. At this year's forum,
Intel will announce support for the Serial ATA International
Organization (SATA-IO)
Hybrid Information Feature with Intel Smart Response Technology,
targeted for a release in the second half of 2013. Intel Smart Response
Technology is expected to accelerate the performance of solid state
hybrid drives enabled with the SATA IO Hybrid Information Feature by up
to 30 percent, as measured by the PCMark Vantage HDD suite.
“Solid state hybrid drives will help Ultrabook designers achieve key
price points and performance goals,” said Emil Yappert, vice president
of product line management at Seagate. “SSHD products are being embraced
by industry leaders such as Intel as demonstrated by the collaborative
efforts with the SATA-IO member companies leading to Seagate's new
hybrid drive capabilities, which can significantly improve SSHD
performance and help drive general adoption in the PC ecosystem during
2013 and beyond.”
Similarly, Microsoft has also included native support of solid state
hybrid drives in Windows 8, utilizing the flash memory of the drive to
achieve best-in-class boot performance.
“Intel is delighted to provide the PC industry with another attractive
storage solution option,” said Intel director of notebook product
marketing, Adam King. “Solid state hybrid drives accelerated with Intel
Smart Response Technology should enable more innovative Ultrabook and
all-in-one desktop system designs.”
For more information visit: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intel-developer-forum-idf/san-francisco/idf-2012-san-francisco.html.
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Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Windows 8 is a
registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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